MOTIVATION + INSPIRATION
Stories, encouragement, and strength to help you dive in and dig deep
MOTIVATION + INSPIRATION
Stories, encouragement, and strength to help you dive in and dig deep
The Names We Call Ourselves.
Think back on the times your negative self-talk has started to act up. What was it usually trying to tell you? What did it signal? Teaching yourself a new language, whether it’s Spanish or Self-Respect, is a process....
Confessions Of A Stage-Four Clinger.
When I was little, I used to hug and not let go. I know, it sounds so precious in the retelling. I'd hug my teachers, my friends, strangers, and of course, the characters at Disneyland. I am in family photos around the...
Long-Distance Friendship: How To Stay Connected When Life Gets In The Way
Making friends as an adult is hard. And keeping those friendships strong when life gets in the way? Even harder. It can feel like the companionship cards are stacked against us - but we actually have more in our favor...
Marry Your Whys: The 5 Biggest Lessons I’ve Learned in 4 Years Of Building A Business.
The guilt hit me before bed, as most guilty moments do. Oh my god. I forgot WANT's four-year anniversary. My heart sank as I counted back since WANT's big day had arrived and departed like nothing. One, two, three,...
Flailures: When Failing Feels Like Flailing.
"Fail," in all its incarnations, wasn't a word used often in my house growing up. I'd love to attribute 100% of this to my parents and their excellent leadership skills, but I think a big reason we didn't use the word...
7 Other Ways To Get Your Best Body Ever.
Let this serve as your reminder that #wellness and #weightloss have nothing to do with each other. You can want (or in some doctor-advised cases, need) to lose weight, but weight is not an indication of overall...
How To Change Your Life.
I BLINK AWAKE and I'm surrounded. I open my door and walk out into the still-sleeping streets and they close in. The busses plow by and I’m hit with their force. Signing onto Facebook, tweeted out on Twitter. On...
A Seasonal Existence.
I live in the seasons now, the highs and the lows. And I've learned what I love and what I loathe. What makes me fly high and what makes me forget myself entirely. LA is famous for 72 And Sunny How pleasant it is...
Ayurvedic Stress Relief 101
Zodiac. MBTI. Human Design. Enneagrams. We're hyper-curious about ourselves, and there are so many ways for us to find out more about what makes us tick...and that's not even counting all the "What type of artisanal...
Losing My Hearing: On Being Human.
As long as I can remember, I've gravitated towards accessible role models. I'm not talking the people who are untouchable but put on a "look-how-down-to-earth-I-am-STARS-THEYRE-JUST-LIKE-US" demeanour for their fans....
You Have No Resumé: On Building A Person.
“You have NO resumé.” The memory just flooded back to me as I drove down the West Side Highway. Or not so much flooded. More like sneak-attack haunted-house-level *jumped out* at me. Truthfully I don’t remember if the...
The New January.
UNLIKE MOST KIDS, I don’t remember EVER dreading the first day of school. I might have had a mini panic attack before starting my senior year of high school (first and lasts always get me), but even those years when I...
